Portable Plant #1: 90 MSHA citations Metal/Non-Metal

EE was attempting to attach a chain from a front end loader bucket to a trailer to lift it up and remove jack stands. The front end loader moved forward and ee stepped back, stumbled and fell on back. EE has a cracked T7 vertebrae.

EE climbed down from his haul truck and stepped on a piece of rock, causing him to fall backwards.When he reached back to break his fall he caused a slight fracture to his right wrist (distal radius).

Employee was using a pry bar. The bar slipped and he hit his hand on the machinery he was prying on, causing a slight fracture to the back of his left hand.

Employee was helping clean trapped material from behind the driven sheave on the primary crusher. He was manually turning the sheave while another employee knocked the material out. He caught his left index finger between the sheave and the crusher frame, fracturing the finger.

EMPLOYEE CLAIMS THAT IN EARLY OCT. HE WAS OPERATING A DOZER PUSHING ROCK, CLEANING UP PIT FLOOR.HE STATES HE WOKE UP THE NEXT MORNING & HIS LEGSWERE NUMB. HE NOTIFIED US ON 11/10/00 AFTER AN MRI SHOWED A HERNIATED DISK. HE'S BEEN OFF WORK SINCE 11/8/00. SURGERY PERFORMED ON 11/13/00.

EE WAS UNDERNEATH A D8K CAT DOZER DOING REPAIR WORK. EE GOT A SMALL PARTICLE OF METAL IN HIS EYE. EE WAS WEARING SAFETY GLASSES.

EE WAS DRIVING A STEEL PIN WITH A SLEDGE HAMMER A SLIVER OF METAL BROKE OFF AND HIT HIM IN THE LEG CUTTING HIM. THE CUT REQUIRED 5 STITCHES.

EE WAS TIGHTENING A BOLT ON AN AIRTRAC DRILL AND RAN THE SHARP END OF A WRENCH INTO THE PALM OF HIS HAND. THE CUT REQUIRED 5 STITCHES.

EE WAS WALKING OUT OF CRUSHER CONTROL SHACK AND TWISTED ANKLE, CAUSING A CONTUSION FRACTURE. HE DID NOT STEP ON ANYTHING, GROUND WAS LEVEL, UNKNOWN WHY HIS ANKLE TWISTED.

EMPLOYEE WAS LOOSENING ADJUSTING BOLTS ON IMPACTOR. THE NUT LOOSENED SUDDENLY CAUSING EMPLOYEE TO STRIKE HIS ELBOW ON THE IMPACTOR. EMPLOYEE THEN FELL TO GROUND. EMPLOYEE WAS UNCONCIOUS FOR AB OUT ONE MINUTE.

EMPLOYEE WAS TRIMMING WEEDS WITH A STRING TRIMMER ON MINE PROPERTY WHEN HE CONTACTED POISON IVY RASH SPREAD OVER HIS ENTIRE BODY

EMPLOYEE WAS CHANGING SCREEN DECKING AND CAUGHT HIS MIDDLE FINGER ON RIGHT HAND IN SCREEN OPENING. THIS RIPPED HIS FINGERNAIL OFF AND BROKE THE BONE ON THE TIP OF HIS FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS LIFTING THE END OF A CONVEYOR AND FELT SOMETHING PULL IN HIS BACK. SUBSEQUENT X-RAYS WERE NEGATIVE, DIAGNOSED AS LOW BACK STRAIN.

EMPLOYEE LIFTED A 5-GAL FUEL CAN & FELT SOMETHING PULL IN GROIN AREA EMPLOYEE HAD HERNIA REPAIRED 4 YRS AGO & RE-INJURED WHEN LIFTING THE FUEL CAN

EMPL DISMOUNTING LOADER STEPPED OFF LAST STEP AND FELT STAB OF PAIN IN LOWER BACK. POSSIBLE HERNIATED DISC.

EE WAS LOOSING UP ADJUSTMENT BOLTS ON TAIL PULLEY ON A SECONDARY UNIT THE TAIL PULLEY SLIPPED BACK AND PINCHED HIS RIGHT INDEX FINGER.

EMPLOYEE WAS USING AN AIR SOCKET WRENCH TO TAKE OFF SOME NUTS AND THE SOCKET JUMPED BACK AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE ABOVE THE LEFT EYE. SOME STITCHES WERE TAKEN TO CLOSE THE WOUND.

HEATED A RIVET ON BOTTOM SIDE OF SHOVEL BUCKET, BENT OVER AND STRUCK RIVET TO SWELL IT AND A HOT CHIP FROM RIVET HIT LEFT EYE CORNER COMING IN BETWEEN TEMPLE AND SAFETY GLASSES. DOCTOR ORDERED HIM NOT TO RETURN TO WORK FOR FEAR OF INFECTION UNTIL ALL HEALED.

WENT DOWN TO PIT TO SET PUMP END WHILE WORKING WITH THE SUCTION HOSE. IT SLIPPED OFF AND HIT HER IN THE MOUTH. EXPERINCED PAIN IN BACK OF NECK AND SWOLLEN LIP.

MECHANIC WAS WORKING ON TRUCK WENT TO GET SOME TOOLS AND SLIPPED ON OILY GROUND INJURED LOWER BACK UNDERGOING CHIROPRACTIC CARE.

EMPLOYEE WAS LI0TING A BATTERY & HE TWISTED WITH THE BATTERY UPLIFTED AS HE DID SO HE FELT PAIN IN HIS NECK & UPPER BACK WHEN LATER SPREAD TO HIS MIDDLE LOWER BACK

TRUCK DRIVER WA8 OUT OF HIS TRUCK AT SHOT ROCK PILE. HE STOOPED OVER AT THE BASE OF PILE TO PICK UP DIRT CLOD. A ROCK FROM OFF THE ROCK PILE ROLLED DOWN AND HIT THE DRIVER IN THE UPPER LIFT TORSO AND HEAD1 DRIVER SUSTAINED AREA SKIN LOSS AND LACERATION, CRACKED TOOTH -POSSIBLE AGGREVATION OF ALREADY BROKEN COLLAR BONE

SCALE HOUSE CAU1HT ON FIRE SHIFT HAD ENDED AT 500PM FROM OUR INVESTIGATION IT IS OUR DETERMINATION THAT THE FIRE WAS DUE TO CARELESS SMOKING HABITS OF EMPLOYEE

MECHANIC WAS TI1HTENING THE DISCHARGE PIPE ON WATER PUMP.MAN WAS USING PIPE WRENCH AND STANDING ON THE FRAME OF THE PUMP.THE PIPE WRENCH SLIPPED OFF THE PIPE AND THE MECHANIC FELL TO THE GROUN D HITTING HIS E5BOW AND BACK.FELT PAIN IN LOWER BACK AND BETWEEN SHOULDERS.

I.NAME WAS AIDI3G OTHER EMPLOYEES TO CLOSE LID ON HAMMERMILL WHEN THE COVERALLS HE WAS WEARING BECAME ENTANGLED ON KNOB ON OUTSIDE OF MILL LID THIS ACTION PULLED I.NAME DOWNWARD & HE IMMEDIAT ELY JERKED HIMS9LF BACKWARD TO AVOID A FALL ON DOING SO HE FELT A PAIN IN HIS RT SHOULDER THIS INJURY WAS DUE TO THE FACE THAT THE MAN WAS WEARING HIS COVERALLS UNZIPPED

TRIED TO DISLOD1E ROCK FROM BIN BY TAPPING BIN WITH PRY BAR.GOT BAR STUCK AT POINT BETWEEN BIN AND CONV.BAR LODGED DOWNWARD AND SMASHED HAND AGAINST FRAME.RING & MIDDLE FINGER WERE SMASHED AND REQ STITCHES.V3OLATED SAFETY RULES BY WORKING ON EQUIP WHILE IN OPERATION.

WATER PUMP, NOT3CED KINK IN DISCHARGE HOSE AND STARTED TO REMOVE KINK. THE PUMP BEGAN TO PUMP WATER AND THE DISCHARGE HOSE WRAPPED AROUND MAN S LEFT ARM, BROKE ARM IN 2 PLACES. ANY SUCK HOSE W SHOULD NOT BE H5NDLED WHEN PUMP IS IN OPERATION.